For Noyan, everyone should participate in volunteer service, regardless of nationality. Shanghai welcomes people from other countries, and as a resident, foreigners have the responsibility to contribute to building a better and more harmonious city. What’s more, only by doing it themselves will they feel fulfilled.

Since he began to settle down in Shanghai in 1996, Noyan has lived in Changning’s Gubei New Area for 18 years. He has taken part in various volunteer and charity activities organized by the Ronghua Neighborhood Committee and even offered to sponsor 10 students from underprivileged families. As a consultant to the Gubei New Area Neighborhood Committee, he was engaged in the management of the international community, so as to help more foreign families to integrate themselves into the city. As a warm-hearted and enthusiastic citizen, Noyan has also made a lot of efforts to create a more civilized Shanghai. The most noteworthy is that one year before the World Expo 2010 kicked off, he led a team of foreign volunteers to carry out greening, cleaning, traffic management and English signage correction in the city, considering preparing for the Expo to be as much their business as native Chinese.